Spanish

Gender

In Spanish, all nouns are either masculine or feminine

Often, nouns end in

• ‑o if they're masculine
• ‑a if they're feminine.

Notice

• el if the word is masculine
• la if the word is feminine.

The apple is a girl?!

It's not just people that are masculine or feminine in Spanish. Objects are, too!

Not sure what gender something is? Look at the the!

• If a word uses el it's masculine.
• If it uses la it's feminine.

I think, therefore…

In English, verb forms change depending on who's doing the action. For example, we say I am, you are, and she is. In Spanish, you do the same thing.